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I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
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